Progression Speed - Gear

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And L2 had great gear progression mainly due to its leveling progress being sloooow as fuuuck. And gear progress was even slower really. You'd usually move onto the next tier of lvls (lvls determined what gear tier you could wear), but would still be wearing penultimate progression step of the previous tier. It was expensive, it was hard to craft and it took several people farming several different resources and even more people farming mats for the craft. And all of this took days.

I fucking loved it and definitely hope that AoC's "45 days of 4-6h a day" of leveling will get us the same kind of feeling.

I would find it much less immersive to start with a meaningfully different weapon type than I intended to use long term. Different types of weapons have very different weight balances and fighting styles. If you're going to fight with a greatsword, you need to train with something of at least similar size and style. I'm all for starting with a dull, rusty old hand-me-down, but it would be unimmersive not to start early with a similar sized weapon that you swing in a similar way, no matter how large that may be for some people.

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My answer is 3, but the game will let you wear extravagant cosmetic costumes from lvl1, so if that puts you off - be warned.

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Skins yes, costumes no.
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Costumes

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Skins yes, costumes no.
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Costumes

To be fair we don't know if there are gear requirements for that either e.g. 'you need to wear a leather body slot to wear a leather type cosmetic'. I asked in the Q&A a few months ago and they said 'ask again later we aren't willing to talk about cosmetics clarifications yet'.

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To be fair we don't know if there are gear requirements for that either e.g. 'you need to wear a leather body slot to wear a leather type cosmetic'. I asked in the Q&A a few months ago and they said 'ask again later we aren't willing to talk about cosmetics clarifications yet'.

Either way, we know this, so people will be running around in lavish-looking clothes from lvl1.